Like me, the Wi-Fi Alliance is based in Austin, so I asked them if they wouldn’t mind setting up a home tour that would allow me to see the future of Wi-Fi in action. In the segment below, I sit down with Kelly Davis-Felner, marketing director of the Wi-Fi Alliance, whose home I visited to talk about Wi-Fi on handsets as well as the future of Wi-Fi peering, which would create device networks independent of the Internet. Davis-Felner says the Alliance has certified 249 mobile handsets since 2003, 106 of them this year alone. She expects Wi-Fi on handsets to...
In a small workshop on a quiet block in Hanoi, Tuan Anh Do runs a bustling business unlocking iPhones and other mobile handsets. CNET News.com's Dong Ngo paid a visit and was impressed by what he saw...
So far, Kyte has been focusing on getting mobile content (videos shot on a cell phone) onto the Web. For each publisher of mobile video, many of them rock stars and rappers, Kyte creates a branded video player they can put on their Websites. Now, with more media consumption happening right on many mobile handsets, Kyte is going the other way around and letting bands and brands turn their Kyte player into a mobile Website complete with banner advertising, chat, fan comments, ratings, and sharing features. You can see some examples here (best viewed on a mobile phone), including...
TechCrunch asks if there is money in Online Video. The answer is yes, but not as much as the totally over-the-top forecasts of last year - and not where the New Media aficionados think it will be either. The TechCrunch piece points to e-Marketers estimates of a $5.8bn US online video Ad market by 2012 (already pared down from nearly double that a year ago) and notes they will take down the numbers gain due to Crunch effects. Absolutely - the number should never have been so high in the first place - a lot of Web 2.0 / New...
The "world's most popular mobile Web browser" hits a new beta milestone today and no, we're not talking about Safari on the iPhone. It's Opera Mini and version 4.2 of the browser for mobile handsets with some new, advanced features. Personalized skins went away from version 3, but they're back with 4.2 so you can pretty up your browser. The company added a new Opera Mini server farm in the U.S. and claims browsing performance will be increased for users in the U.S. and Asia-Pacific region. Load reductions on other servers should result in better performance in other areas...
With the release of Google Chrome and the continued popularity of Mozilla Firefox, the browser wars are seeing a bit of a renaissance. But as interesting as the renewed battle for the desktop may be, it's important to remember that a similar battle for browser dominance - one that may affect even more people - is taking place on mobile handsets the world over. Last month, we saw more news of the yet-to-be-released Firefox Mobile broswer - code named "Fennec" - surface with the release of Windows Mobile screenshots. Not to be outdone, Opera - the current mobile browser leader...
Mobile phone giant Nokia , in association with UC Berkeley , has launched Mobile Millennium, a public pilot that will collect and study traffic data received from GPS-enabled mobile devices, such as the Nokia N96, Nokia N95 & Nokia E71. The aggregated data is then encrypted & sent to a computer system, which blends it with other sources of traffic data and broadcasts this real‐time, data‐rich information back to the phones and to the internet through a user friendly interface. The Mobile Millennium team expects to have 10,000 participants by April . “The whole concept here is that if everyone...
Good morning hiogis, We just launched our “hiogi for Skype” solution. Now you can also ask any question by directly chatting with the hiogi community via the Skype account “hiogimessenger”. hiogi for Skype not only works on the Mac or PC but also on many mobile handsets, if you download the beta version of skype mobile. Please follow these steps in order to start using hiogi for Skype: 1. Register for free and become a real hiogi 2. Log in on www.hiogi.com 3. Save your personal skype account on this page or in your settings: www.hiogi.com/skype 4. Wait until the...
Filed under: Cellphones It's tough to predict the future, especially with cutbacks to R&D budgets in the face of a global economic slowdown. Still, it's always nice to see a forward-looking corporate-slide related to mobile handsets from the taller, blonder half of that Sony Ericsson partnership. LTE and fast CPUs are certainly no surprise, nor is that 1,024 x 768 XGA screen resolution that Japan's superphones are already bumping up against. The most compelling vision is that of the embedded camera sensors: 12-20 megapixels capable of recording Full HD video by 2012. Adding more fuel to firey speculation that handsets...
Filed under: Handsets, Sony Ericsson It's tough to predict the future, especially with cutbacks to R&D budgets in the face of a global economic slowdown. Still, it's always nice to see a forward-looking corporate-slide related to mobile handsets from the taller, blonder half of that Sony Ericsson partnership. LTE and fast CPUs are certainly no surprise, nor is that 1,024 x 768 XGA screen resolution that Japan's superphones are already bumping up against. The most compelling vision is that of the embedded camera sensors: 12-20 megapixels capable of recording Full HD video by 2012. Adding more fuel to firey speculation...
Filed under: Industry, Other hardware It's tough to predict the future, especially with cutbacks to R&D budgets in the face of a global economic slowdown. Still, it's always nice to see a forward-looking corporate-slide related to mobile handsets from the taller, blonder half of that Sony Ericsson partnership. LTE and fast CPUs are certainly no surprise, nor is that 1,024 x 768 XGA screen resolution that Japan's superphones are already bumping up against. The most compelling vision is that of the embedded camera sensors: 12-20 megapixels capable of recording Full HD video by 2012. Adding more fuel to firey speculation...
One thing’s for sure - the cream rises to the top in a downturn. And San Francisco/Israel based iSkoot, which has built technology that lets mobile users access Skype via normal mobile handsets, look like it’s the cream. The company has raised a third round of financing - $19 million from new investor Vision Opportunity Master Fund. Existing investors Charles River Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Jesselson Capital Corporation and ZG Ventures also participated in the round. Total capital raised by iSkoot is now over $32 million. iSkoot is best known to U.S. consumers as the company that brought Skype to the...
You must have heard about Vopium, the new provider of international mobile calling via GSM and VoIP. Other than claiming to provide the cheapest call on mobile, they now present Vopium.com with an improved user interface. Apart from the new design, Vopium also provides its users with a good incentive of 30 free minutes call and 100 SMS. So the next time you think of calling your friends and giving them a surprise, try Vopium! What’s exciting on the new site? The good thing is that on the home page of the site, users can select their country and get...
